- You're such a good dog, you're such a good dog!
All right, go away. I need to film.
Have you ever tried to film yourself snowboarding or skiing?
If you have, you know the struggle.
I first tried 15 years ago,
and with the cameras I had access to me at the time,
the quality was just absolutely... no thanks.
Three years later, I finally had enough
courage and experience to bring up
my MiniDV camcorder with wide-angle lens,
but it was scary because I was always one bad crash away
from losing my one and only camcorder.
That's also when I realized exactly
how much you need your upper body
to keep your balance, so when you're trying
to hold out a camera and lock in that good angle,
it makes doing anything 10 times harder,
and the wide angle was helpful,
but it wasn't quite wide enough.
Now, once in a while, I can convince a friend
to chase me with a camera,
but no one wants to spend all day filming.
Few years later, action cameras are finally a thing.
It was a huge upgrade because GoPros were durable,
it was waterproof, and it was also wearable.
My personal favorite way to mount it
was right here on the side of the helmet
so I can still see the POV of what I'm seeing,
but also I can see a little bit of
what I'm doing with my board and all that.
Now, it's been a while since
the last time I've been snowboarding,
but I just went again this weekend
with the Institute 61 X2,
and this invisible selfie stick
and the footage itself,
Carrie, how was the footage?
- The footage?
- Yeah, I'm talking about the snowboarding video.
Are you paying attention?
- I'm... no.
- I'm talking about the snowboarding footage.
How did it turn out?
- Yeah it turned out really cool.
- Yeah. There you go.
See, cut to epic montage.
(dramatic music)
- [Cameraman] This is both your guys' is very first time.
- [Snowboarder in red] Both of our first time.
- [Cameraman] How much do you think your
ass is going to hurt at the end of the day?
- [Snowboarder in red] A lot.
- [Snowboarder in Black] I got this off of Amazon,
it's two right ones.
- [Cameraman] They gave you two right gloves?
Somebody out there has got two left ones.
They're like, damn it.
(dramatic music)
- [Cameraman] Congrats on first time snowboarding.
- [Woman] It was a lot of fun.
- [Man] It was good, it was a lot of fun.
- Yeah I can't wait to come again,
Imma buy my own gear and everything
we're already looking at stuff.
- [Woman] Everyone got out safe
- [Cameraman] No broken bones, as far as we know.
- This is pretty
- Yeah this is nice.
Are you guys good at this?
- No, we're not good, but we know how to play.
- A little bar? Oh yeah that's what I'm talking about.
What is this like a poker table
- Yeah. Then I can just like launch my drone
off from there and then come in and hang out with you guys.
- That was what you were doing.
- This is the, in that real estate video, by the way
I got a lot of comments about it.
So it's the, I fly protect 25.
And the camera on here is the Insta 360 Go2.
I have it on pro mode
16 by nine 30 frames per second.
I'm going to just start recording from here.
And now I'm going to sync these two cameras,
which will switch us over to this camera.
And let's go for a little flight.
(jazz music)
- These are great.
Cause they have bumpers.
So in case you bump into a wall or something,
you're not going to damage it all.
But now I moved the camera to this
which is a EMAX baby Hawk 2 HD.
And let's take this outside.
(calm music)
- Oh no!
I lost the camera.
Okay. So let's see if I could get within range,
I should be able to pick up the signal from the case.
So let's go look for it.
It should be able to connect as soon
as I get close with this.
Okay. I'm within range.
- [Carrie] Oh I found it!
- You found it? You found it?
- With my eagle eyes.
- Oh my gosh, Carrie, you are the best at this.
Holy cow, Carrie finds everything.
- Yes! I get it.
I said there was a dollar for whoever found it
- [Cameraman] I'll give you more than a dollar!
Like you guys coming out here and helping
was nice and all, but it doesn't really matter.
Carrie was going to find it regardless.
Let's go ahead and start off by looking at my pack
and list what I brought up with me.
It's a 361X 2 with the invisible selfie stick.
And there's this rubber cover that's actually really useful
definitely recommended it,
So you could quickly just throw the camera in a bag
or your pocket without worrying about scratching the lens.
We also have this bullet time handle, which we can attach
to the bottom of the stick to spin it around
and a helmet mount, which we'll talk about in a bit.
I also brought my Sony A7S3, which is
my go-to vlog camera and a microphone, but it's a little bit
too valuable and fragile for me to take up the mountains.
Since my form of snowboarding is basically
crashing every 20 seconds.
So the A7S gets to stay in the cozy cabin,
but I'll bring this Go2 up with me.
What I like about it is I can just throw it in my pocket.
And since there's no lenses or screens exposed
I don't have to worry about it.
Getting scratched up by keys or anything like that.
All three of these cameras can be just recharged
off a USB-C battery bank.
So you don't have to pack any extra battery chargers
if you're trying to pack light.
And if you're also trying to bring a drone with you
what's nice about the MADEC mini two is
that you can also charge this
with USB-C so you can leave the charger at home
but the MADEC air or the MADEC pro those
you do need to bring an extra charger.
I got most of these shots just
by holding the invisible selfie stick
and the way 360 cameras work,
they record everything in every direction.
So you don't really have to worry about keeping yourself
in frame or what the shot's going to look like.
You decide all that afterwards.
And I recorded some of this
in 5.7 K 30 or 4K 50, for some slow motion
or 3 K 100 frames per second, for super slow motion.
But keep in mind when you're reframing
the more you have to prop
in the less resolution you're going to have.
So I definitely like to use the 5.7 K
if I know I'm going to be doing a lot
of reframing and zooming in.
And when I want that a hundred frames per second
at three K, I try to limit the amount of zooming I do
or else it could get pixelated really fast and going in.
I wasn't sure how much
of a distraction it would be to hold this camera on a stick
but it really wasn't bad.
It didn't really feel like it was throwing
off my balance too much or anything like that.
So I didn't mind it, but one thing I did try to focus
on was trying to get that camera down low.
It just looks more dynamic.
And since the camera's so close to the ground
it just makes you feel like you're going way faster.
The coolest shots was definitely when I was able to kick
up some of that snow and get it right onto the camera.
But you're definitely going to want to wipe
down the lenses if you do that
because the snowflakes will show up in your shot.
And what's nice about the 1X 2
and the 1R is that they are both waterproof.
So I'm not afraid to get these wet or covered in snow.
But if you're running the original 1X
that one is not waterproof.
So be a little bit more careful if you're
on the previous version of the 1X, but when it comes
to effects, hyperlapse is definitely one of my favorites.
All you do is just record a long clip with the camera
as stable as possible.
And then the app you select
which part of the clip you want to speed up.
And you also have the option to add in this motion blur.
- All right.
So they call this the backpack shot.
I just have it sticking up out there.
I have an opening on the top of my backpack
so I just jam it in there.
And uh, this is what it looks like.
And what's cool about
The backpack shot is once you put it on
you could just completely forget that you even have it on,
you don't have to hold it or worry
about it throwing off your balance or anything like that.
It does kind of look like you have this big old antenna
on you, but here's one that makes you look even
a little bit more ridiculous
but the shot is pretty awesome.
It's called the unicorn shot.
Oh, this will make you look ridiculous
but take out the shot we get out of it.
(calm music)
That was good.
- [Cameraman] I actually really liked the shot that you get
out of this unicorn mount
But if you look closely
you can actually still see part of the mouth.
And that's because I kind of put one together
with parts I had laying around
but Insta 360 does sell their official unicorn mounts.
I imagine if you use that
then you'll end up with a really clean stitch line.
- Okay so I got this bullettime handle on here.
- So I have it set to 3K hundred frames per second
and I'm going to be spinning it around my head while I ride
down while holding this behind the scenes camera.
So this is going to be a little bit of a challenge
but let's go for it.
So it is definitely the most distracting
and difficult shot to get out of all of these
but there's no denying that the final shot looks awesome.
- Now, quick disclosure, even
though Insta 360 is not sponsoring this video
they've always been a huge supporter
of this channel from the start.
They're always hooking us up
with tons of free cameras and goodies and stuff like that.
So maybe I am a little bit biased towards their cameras
but no, I really do enjoy using their cameras.
And the only other camera I can think
of I can give similar results is probably the GoPro Max.
The reason why I go
for the 1X 2 is because I'm a sucker for slow motion.
I love that a hundred frame per second, 3 K option.
I should also mention the links down
there are affiliate links,
So if you buy a camera using my link
I get a kickback out of it.
So I appreciate it.
If you don't buy it, then
well you should buy it should go rob a bank or something.
I hear you don't even need to college degree
for that anymore.
And as we're filming this right now
Insta 360 does have a sale going on right now.
Here are some details case you're interested
but other than that, that's all I have to say.
Getting tired.
I've been walking around in circles with the stick.
It is nice vlogging on the stick though.
Cause it's less
of like holding a mirrorless camera and recording yourself.
And everyone's like, what's that?
Here I just look like I'm just walking
around with a stick or wand.
I think I'm pretty much out of things to say for this video.
Let's cut to one of our outros filmed by one of you guys.
- Goodbye.